If you came across a set of bicycle tracks in the mud, could you determine
which way the bicycle was going simply by examining the tracks? Sherlock
Holmes goofed with this problem. More explanation is below.

(: ‎, , literally City) is a project in , in the . Its core is a , which is being built by the , a subsidiary of , with the majority of seed capital provided by the government of Abu Dhabi. Designed by the British architectural firm , the city will ...

A 5-micrometer glass bead levitated in air by a single laser beam from below. This optical trap is formed by the scattering force from the laser beam and the gravitational force on the bead. Tongcang Li, et. al. used a similar optical trap to study t...

A team of researchers has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology for solving this classic energy problem is based upon the first realization of a highly exo...

In February, four members of a feminist Russian punk-rock band named "Pussy Riot," protesting against President Vladimir Putin's government, walked into the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow

My officemate has this on the back of his sweater. One of our students asked if we could understand it. I had to admit that while I understand the notation, my physics knowledge is not enough to understand the underlying meaning of this equation. (I ...

These video lectures of Professor Gilbert Strang teaching 18.06 were recorded live in the Fall of 1999. Support for the video production was provided by the Lord Foundation of Massachusetts under a grant to the MIT Center for Advanced Educational Ser...

Hideaki Matsui and Andrew Spitz, students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, built the Super Angry Birds desktop slingshot controller as project for their Haptic (tactile feedback) technology class.

dropping knowledge (droppingknowledge) is a global initiative to turn apathy into activity. By hosting an open conversation on the most pressing issues of our times, we will foster a worldwide exchange of viewpoints, ideas and people-powered solution...

Is there anything funner than smoking weed? Answer: no. The comics about toking are almost as fun as smoking up itself, so we selected the 8 best tree comics about everyone's secret favorite pastime:
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Angry Dad turns into ice cream ...

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and if you haven't gotten anything for your mom yet we think these tiny Polaroid magnets would make an awesome gift. Simply download the template, add your phot...

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The Universe, as we know it, is comprised of elementary particles such as electron, protons and neutrons. These are the basic building blocks of matter. It is, however, unclear why their respective antiparticles (positrons, antiprotons and antineutro...

The is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the in Ghent, Belgium. The festival was host to almost 30 exhibitions including plenty of , fields of , and a , however with 55,000 LEDs and towering 28 meters high the se...